title: Do children of lone parents smoke more because their mothers do?
abstract: This short report examines the association between smoking behaviours of mothers and their 15 year old children, and whether there is a difference between families headed by a mother living alone or with a partner. It is based on data collected from a cohort of young people and their mothers (N = 967), resident in the West of Scotland. We found no evidence that children of lone mothers smoke more because their mothers do; the familial transmission of smoking behaviour, at 15, appeared to be less apparent in households headed by lone than cohabiting mothers.
authors.affiliation: MRC Medical Sociology Unit, Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Macintyre
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: West
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ecob
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012606:Scotland / Q000453:epidemiology; D015406:Single Parent / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*